Zolan Kano-Youngs

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936 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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The Daily · What A.I. Is Actually Doing to the Economy · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

how rickety that unemployment insurance system is.

How... Many struggled to navigate that system and needed it and relied on it.

It was incredibly helpful for a lot of people, right?

But it was also a fundamentally pretty broken system in a lot of ways.

developed in the 1990s and further back trade adjustment assistance that was meant to help workers who were displaced by globalization, but it never really reached a lot of the workers who needed to benefit.

So there are a lot of policy experts now who are actually looking back at the lessons of that period and saying, like, how do we make sure that we design programs better this time around?

And then there's, you know, do we need to have some sort of totally new program that deals with AI specifically, right?

Maybe that's the government taking stakes in companies to create, you know, some sort of sovereign wealth fund that allows everybody to benefit from AI.

Maybe this is some form of universal basic income where instead of working, people are getting checks directly from the government in this new world.

None of that is anywhere close to

to an actionable policy right now.

But it shows you sort of the extent to which people in Washington, people in capitals, frankly, around the world are starting to grapple with sort of the potential impacts of this technology and the possibility that maybe we need to take a totally different approach to policy.

Okay, so we've been talking about what policymakers should do, but those listening might be wondering, what can they do, right?

What is the individual supposed to do?

For those with kids, what are they supposed to tell them?

I think that that in many ways captures sort of what is scariest about this moment.

If you think back to that 1990s period, there was a sense that you did know what you should do.

You should go to college.

You should pursue these new burgeoning careers.

And look, that did not work out for everybody.

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